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Prasanna

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
391 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The YC of India Writes 47 Checks at $100k each for 5%, $2.5m Valuation

We're literally handholding them to change their website, the language on their website to sound better.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The YC of India Writes 47 Checks at $100k each for 5%, $2.5m Valuation

more global, for example, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The YC of India Writes 47 Checks at $100k each for 5%, $2.5m Valuation

So those are the kind of things which I believe, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The YC of India Writes 47 Checks at $100k each for 5%, $2.5m Valuation

And, you know, you can correct me if you think otherwise.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The YC of India Writes 47 Checks at $100k each for 5%, $2.5m Valuation

We're literally changing the DNA of the business, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The YC of India Writes 47 Checks at $100k each for 5%, $2.5m Valuation

So we have folks who have India revenue, but have struggled to get global revenue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The YC of India Writes 47 Checks at $100k each for 5%, $2.5m Valuation

And we are helping them make that first dollar of global revenue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The YC of India Writes 47 Checks at $100k each for 5%, $2.5m Valuation

Is that worth equity or is that not worth equity, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The YC of India Writes 47 Checks at $100k each for 5%, $2.5m Valuation

I think that's the question that founders need to ask themselves, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The YC of India Writes 47 Checks at $100k each for 5%, $2.5m Valuation

So I have folks who have built services business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The YC of India Writes 47 Checks at $100k each for 5%, $2.5m Valuation

They've tried to build product businesses and they've struggled to build product businesses because when you're trying to build a product business, you need to make different decisions than when you're building a services business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The YC of India Writes 47 Checks at $100k each for 5%, $2.5m Valuation

And so somebody has to literally sit with them and tell them, look, this is how you're making decisions.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The YC of India Writes 47 Checks at $100k each for 5%, $2.5m Valuation

And this decision was okay in a services business, but this decision is not okay in a product business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The YC of India Writes 47 Checks at $100k each for 5%, $2.5m Valuation

And you need to rethink how you do that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The YC of India Writes 47 Checks at $100k each for 5%, $2.5m Valuation

You may have made the wrong hire because the person you hired as a developer in a services business, that was okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The YC of India Writes 47 Checks at $100k each for 5%, $2.5m Valuation

But that same person is functioning in a product business in a way that is detrimental to the long-term health of that product business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The YC of India Writes 47 Checks at $100k each for 5%, $2.5m Valuation

So that's the granularity at which we work with founders.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The YC of India Writes 47 Checks at $100k each for 5%, $2.5m Valuation

and to transform their business, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The YC of India Writes 47 Checks at $100k each for 5%, $2.5m Valuation

So we spend literally, you know,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The YC of India Writes 47 Checks at $100k each for 5%, $2.5m Valuation

dozens to almost a hundred hours per founder, uh, from our, from me and my team, right.